Sean Michael Kerner

TORONTO — You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say. First, educate yourself about how Google indexes and ranks Web pages with its PageRank mechanism, said Debbie Jaffe, product marketing manager at Google. Speaking at the Search […]

At long last, Qualcomm is supporting Linux on its chip solutions. This marks the first time the company has ever supported a third-party OS. Integrated single-chip Linux support on Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem (MSM) 6550, according to the company, improves the efficiency of running Linux on a cell phone, becuase it eliminates the need for […]

TORONTO — Is MSN gaining or losing search share to Google in North America? Yes and no. It depends who you ask. But it may not matter. According to data from comScore Networks and WebSideStory presented at Search Engine Strategies (SES) Toronto, searchers are looking at more than one search engine when making queries. The […]

TORONTO — Search Engine Strategies Toronto got under way today with the usual slew of panels on how to improve and optimize search engine results. New to the event this year was a standing-room-only panel that included Gord Hotchkiss, president and CEO of search research firm Enquiro, and Debbie Jaffe, product marketing manager at Google. […]

Network equipment giant Juniper Networks is launching a major new security strategy and product initiative that integrates its SSL Virtual Private Network with a new approach to public network infrastructure. Call it a new and improved “Infranet” offering, built on its so-called J.E.D.I (Juniper End Point Defense Initiative) that helps power security across the enterprise. […]

Wireless research firm M:Metrics reports that mobile photo messaging continued to grow while most other mobile content areas declined. According to M:Metrics’ Benchmark Report for March 2005, 7.3 percent of U.S. mobile subscribers sent a photo message to another cell phone or e-mail account at some point over the last three months. For the period […]

Just after claiming it holds the biggest Linux market share in China, Turbolinux further substantiated its claim by signing up China’s biggest bank as a customer. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has signed an agreement with Turbolinux to integrate Linux across its banking network over the next three years. Financial terms of […]

Novell today announced a partnership with a leading Chinese organization to help expand and promote Linux adoption in China. The agreement with China Standard Software Co., Ltd. (CS2C) of Shanghai is intended to help optimize and promote Linux adoption in China. The two companies will partner on services, marketing and technology support issues that will […]

UPDATED: Guiding a major software operating system is not often a democratic act, even within the open source movement. But Debian GNU/Linux is an exception. Branden Robinson was recently elected by Debian developers as the new Debian Project Leader (DPL) and issued his first report yesterday. In it, he discussed the progress and challenges of […]

UPDATED: Open source development got a bit faster this week thanks to the release of the GCC 4.0 compiler . GCC is included in every Linux distribution and has been one of the leading compilers in use over the last 15 years. GCC, which used to stand for GNU C Compiler and then changed to […]

UPDATED: Turbolinux is enjoying its fourth consecutive year of growth in the China Linux market, after a report issued by IDC this week said its share saw significant growth in 2004. The report, “China Linux 2005-2009 Forecast and Analysis,” said Turbolinux reached 62 percent in 2004, up from 61.1 percent the year before. The market […]

TORONTO — Open Source is a major force in Voice over Internet Protocol that contributes innovation and provides real business value for the telecom manufacturers and resellers. That was the message from Mark Spencer, founder of the open source Asterisk PBX project and president of its commercial offshoot Digium, at the Voice Over Net (VON) […]